Check-sales-printing machine.



No. 673,374. Patented `Apr. 30, |90I.

S. & S. R. SHUUP.

CHECK SALES PRINTING MACHINE.

(Application led Feb. 11, 1901.)

'(No Model.)

SAMUEL SHOUP SAMUEL R HOUP THEIR ATTORNEYS i A'UNITED S'IATES"V PATENT. OFFICE.

SAMUEL sHoUP AND SAMUEL E. snoUP, or'wILMmeron,y mrLAWAnE.-V

cHEcK-sALEs-PRi-NTING MACHINE.

. sPEcurcATIoN forming part of Lei-.tersraeent No. 673,314, dated Apnea-i901. i

Application filed February 11,1901lv :serial No. 46,8%.` (No model.) `V *n To all whom it may concer-ra Be it known that we, SAMUEL SHOUP and SAMUEL R. SHOUP', citizens of the United States of America, and residents of -Wilmington, in the county of Newcastle, State of Delaware, have invented Improvements in Check- Sales-Printing Machines, of whichl the following is a specidcation.- l

Our improvement hasbeen more especially designed for use in printing duplicate or triplicate check-sales slips; but it maybe employed for the Aprinting of any sheets which have to be assembledin pairs or triplets, es-

` pecially where the pau'sor triplets require to be numbered alike.

The object of our invention is to'so construct the printing-press that the duplicate or triplicate sheets may be printed and numbered at one and the same impression while overlying each other and without pasting the sheets together in advance and without requiring the sheets to be of diierent lengths in the final book. This object we attain in the manner we will now describe.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic sectional elevation of a Kidder type of printing-press provided rwith our improvement; and Fig. 2 is a face view on the line 2.2, Fig. 1, drawn to a larger scale.

Although in the drawings we have shown our improvement as applied to `the slips, it will be .understood that our improvement is applicable to other types of printingpresses and to the printing and numbering of triplicate sheets also.

Referring to Fig. 1, F is the frame of thel 'reseuts a roll of paper which is to be printed,

numbered, and cut into sheets, and the roll. will be unwound, as indicated by the arrow, by means of the usual continuously-actin g feed-rolls B,while intermittently-acting feedrolls G draw the webs from the platen P over the guide-bar p and deliver the webs to be cut into sheets of proper ,width by the shears K.

In practice we prefer to wind up together onto one roll A the webs from which the duwell-, known type of Kidder press and to the printing and numbering of duplicate ,check-sales,

plicateor triplicate check-sales'slips are to be made. two webs` X and Y as being delivered 4from the roll A, and as the feed-'rollers B serve 'only to unwind the roll A at aspeed snicient to keep the press supplied itis necessary to pass only one of'the'webs, X,betweon those rollers.

We provide each of the webs X and Y with an independent guiding means C and D, so oisetfrom each other that although the two webs are of the same width they will be delivered to the printing and impression surfaces with the under web projecting laterally beyond the upper web, so that the under sheet `Thus in Fig. 1 wehare indicated' maybe printed and numbered on that extended end simultaneously and in 'correspondence with the printing and numbering of the upper web.

On referring to Fig. 2, as well as Fig. 1, it will be seen that these guiding means consist in lthe present instance each of a pair of stationary bars c c d d, between which the web passes, and on theseI bars laterally-adjustable edge-guides c' Vc d' d. In Fig. 2 is clearly shown how the vwebs are so guided to the printing mechanism that while the webs overlie each other the under web X is caused to extend'laterally at one edge beyond the web Y, so that the web X may be printed and numbered on this extended end simultaneously and in accordance withthe printing and numbering of the web Y, as is illustrated by way of example in this same figure. In the press in question it is usually most economical to print two sets at once, as shown,

`to be out o fte'rward as desired. After leaving the shears K the overlying cut sheets can easily be jostled together automatically or by hand, so as to make the sheets lie over each other exactly or otherwise as they may be wanted in the final book.

As is well understood in the manufacture of duplicate or triplicate check-sales slips, the second and third sheets or leaves oi' each such slip will not need to have printed on them all of the matter that is printed en the 4youd the upper one and numbered ou the ex `top leaf, but they have-to be at least num tended end; butto dothat the sheets were pasted together-agir: An dvancegand were made of different widths'. Whileinusing our present. invention we may employ sheets or webs of dilerent widths, that is no longer netjessa'ry, and we-dispense with the preliminary pastingtogetherof -the overlying webs, ,and finally by our present invention the under sheet need no longer extend `beyond the upper sheet in the finished book, or if it des so extend it need not extend to show the numbers or other matter which has beenI printed on the under sheet when it passed through the press.

We claim as our invention- 1'. The'eombinatio'n of the printing andimpression surfaces ,of a printing-press with means for feeding twovor more overlying w ebs therethrough and guiding means qiset from each other, and separate from. the webs, to guide the latter through with oneweb projecting at one edge beyond the other, whereby said vprojecting' edge may be numbered at ing fwebs through the press, and means separate fromthewebs for giding'the-latter eifset from each puber, whereby the dilerent' numbering devices on the printing-surface may number the dierentwebs at one impression, 'substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we .have signed our namesv to this specification in the' presence of two subseribingwitnesses.."'. 'SAMUEL 'SHOUR p SAMUEL iR. S-IIOUP.

Witnessesi l i PRUDENCE E. MGCLURE, HOWELL S. ]431IG{LAND.` 

